you're right, I'm not sure when the next batch of work that will use BOINC will be, but I would imagine pretty soon. I *think* everything is pretty good with the new versions of GARLI, although I have some indication that our OS X executable might not work on 10.4, so I'm working on that.

Looks like work may come while I am away. Hope someone does some checking while I am gone so folks can grab work to make up ground in this project in the Vault. It is still vaulted right?

And I just picked up some work on PrimeGrid that put my computer into High Priority and so my machine won't grab new work until it settles down. I love Boinc. It thinks it will take 500 hours with a deadline time of 550 hours when I look @ the % done it will take under 100 hours but boinc is still in a panic until it figures this out. I hope this is a big batch so I can get some latter.

Lattice has found a bug in work resumption from task checkpoints. This is not hitting all WU but they have found the cause and expect to post a bug fix before the next batch. Suposily a variable is not written at some points in a run and is needed during a task restart so the task errors out at that point. Adam said they are testing the fix. The bug has not hit me yet. Most WUs seem to be running fine and if WU are kept in memory while suspended the bug does not hit. Also for me the WUs have been around 2 hours so if task switch is set to every 3 hours most will finish before needing a restart.

Well I spoke to soon. I picked up 4 WU after I finished the first 2 without error. The roughly 1000 WU the project is still working on appears to be a collection of WU that error out. I was between the 3rd and 10th computer to try to crunch on the 4 bad ones I picked up. I am going to PM Adam that he may want to stop the auto resends of multi error WU and only resend timed out WUs. Looks like the last batch had around a 10% error rate.

Edit just looked up the settings for max error # is 20 on Lattice GARLI WUs. So this batch could hang around for a while if Adam does not stop the endless cycling of the 10% bad WUs before the reach the max error # and stop being sent out automatically after failing the last time.

I just played around with some settings with the remaining problem WU on Lattice. I just got one to run to completion after failure with 8 other computers by preventing the WU from ever being suspended. In this case by running it 100% of the time until done. Now for the next one I will use keep in memory when suspended and see if it works that way. The bug fix is not out yet for this batch so this is a work around for the acknowledged bug. This is one way to get credit and get these damaged WUs out of the f*%$ing way. I have not heard from Adam on what he plans to do with the dregs from the last batch.

Update on runtimes for the new batch. Looks to be around 100 hours on a 2.4GHz C2D on a 192 hour deadline. Tight but doable. I am 12 hours in showing 13.xx% done no wobbles on the rate done ie no unexpected pauses and drop backs like in previous batches of work.

Well I missed the last 2 batches of work. I am going to be shut down for work for 48-72 hours for a family visit. I don't like leaving a computer on for more than 24 hours unattended. Clearing all short deadlines and will shutdown near 7AM EST in the morning. See ya all on the other side.

This seems to have been a small batch of very short WU. they ran through my system in like 10-20 minutes per WU. I am not seeing any new stuff going out. I grabbed about 10 of them before they disappeared.Edit with some of the work I was finishing them before the 10 min back off to contact the project finished. This project uses a 10 minute minimum contact interval before the server will talk to your client again.

Edit 2 Work still going out. Just updated the website server status and saw more work. 8:30PM EST

This last batch finished yesterday. The WU where short and most of them are no longer being crunched. The batch was over 5,000 WU around 1500 left in active crunching in the field. Looks like we have stabilized at around a batch/week on the project right now.

Hey I forgot to post this but the lattice project has had new work for the last 3-5 days. I have been in my summer coma for crunching. I will be posting more and paying more attention when the temps drop in the fall. I have only one CPU core crunching right now and if the temps go over 95 F in the daytime I'm shut down for the day.Edit A new batch went in in the last few hours. I looked the last time about 8 hours ago.

Very large work dump in progress at the Lattice project. Over 20,000 WU up for grab. This would be a good time if you can to grab some work. I'm shutting down for a few days in about 5 hours so I'm grabbing one to see if I can get it done before my shutdown. See everyone on the flip side.